Mystery liquid used in Pittsburgh bus stop abduction attempt

WEST MIFFLIN (AP) — Police have been searching for a man, and were trying to identify a mystery liquid he used, who tried to abduct a woman at a transit bus stop near Pittsburgh.

West Mifflin Police Chief Kenneth Davies says the man parked in a lot near the bus stop and first asked a 22-year-old woman about the bus schedule before briefly returning to his car. When he walked back to the stop, the man tried to place a cloth doused in the liquid over the woman’s mouth, but she broke free and ran away.

Police were trying to determine if the substance was ether or chloroform or something else that might have been used to render the woman unconscious.

Police have also been trying to obtain video from surveillance cameras in the area.